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Edmond Blaise
Edmond Blaise (1872–1939) was a French organic chemist known for the Blaise reaction, first reported in 1901, who held chairs at Nancy and the Sorbonne and led research at Rhône-Poulenc.
Edmond Brun
Edmond Brun (1898–1979) was a French physicist specializing in fluid mechanics and aerothermics, professor at the Faculté des sciences de Paris and a member of the Académie des sciences.
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley, also known as Sir Edmund Halley, was an English astronomer and mathematician (1656–1742) who predicted the return of Halley's Comet and financed the first edition of Newton's Principia.
Edmund Clifton Stoner
Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968) was a British theoretical physicist and Cavendish Professor at Leeds, known for the Stoner criterion for ferromagnetism and the Stoner rule for electron shells.
Edmund Copeland
Edmund J. Copeland is a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham who works in particle cosmology, studying inflation, cosmic strings, string theory, and dark energy.
Edmund Hess
Edmund Hess (Edmund Adolf Hess) was a German mathematician known for rediscovering the regular four-dimensional polytopes while Schläfli's earlier discovery remained unpublished, publishing in Cassel from 1876.
Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Langley Hirst (1898–1975) was a British carbohydrate chemist who established the ring structures of simple sugars and co-determined the structure of vitamin C.
Edmund Hlawka
Edmund Hlawka (1916–2009) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at the University of Vienna, known for the Minkowski–Hlawka theorem, the Koksma–Hlawka inequality, and over 130 doctoral students.
Edmund Landau
Edmund Landau (1877–1938) was a German Jewish mathematician at Göttingen who made analytic number theory a systematic science, proved the prime number theorem anew in 1903, and posed four still-open prime problems.
Edmund Orme Harriss
Edmund Orme Harriss is a British mathematician and artist at the University of Arkansas, known for the Harriss spiral, the Curvahedra toy, and mathematical coloring books.
Edmund Oscar von Lippmann
Edmund Oscar von Lippmann (1857–1940) was a German sugar chemist and historian of chemistry, author of the standard works Chemie der Zuckerarten and Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie.
Edo Berger
Edo Berger is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, there since 2008, known for work on short gamma-ray bursts and for leading the identification of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event.
Edo Waks
Edo Waks is a quantum photonics researcher and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, known for spin-photon interfaces and topological quantum optics.
Edoardo Amaldi
Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989) was an Italian experimental physicist who worked under Enrico Fermi, rebuilt Italian physics after World War II, and helped found CERN, the INFN, and ESA.
Edouard Bard
Édouard Bard (born 1962) is a French paleoclimatologist and geochemist, professor at the Collège de France who reconstructs past sea levels by dating fossil corals.
Édouard Branly
Édouard Branly was a French physicist and physician, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris, whose 1890 discovery of radioconduction produced the detector that made wireless telegraphy possible.
Édouard Brézin
Édouard Brézin, born in 1938, is a French theoretical physicist known for statistical field theory, the renormalization group, and random matrix theory, with work important to string theory.
Édouard Goursat
Édouard Goursat (1858–1936) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne, remembered for proving Cauchy's integral theorem without assuming continuity and for his three-volume Cours d'analyze mathématique.
Edouard Zeckendorf
Edouard Zeckendorf (1901–1983) was a Belgian physician, army officer, and amateur number theorist from Liège known for Zeckendorf's theorem, which gives every positive integer a unique representation as a sum of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
Edrophonium
Edrophonium is a short-acting acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, acting within 30 to 60 seconds, that raises acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction, the basis of the Tensilon test for myasthenia gravis, discontinued in the United States in 2018.
EDTA and its salts
EDTA (edetic acid, CAS 60-00-4) and its sodium, calcium, and iron salts are hexadentate chelating agents used in detergents, food, medicine, and oilfield work, valued for strong metal binding but scrutinized for persistence and poor biodegradability.
Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner (1860–1917) was a German chemist who showed in 1897 that cell-free yeast extract ferments sugar to alcohol, disproving vitalism and winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Eduard Casas Alvero
Eduard Casas Alvero is a mathematician and professor at the Universitat de Barcelona who works in algebraic geometry and is known for the Casas-Alvero conjecture, an open problem about polynomials.
Eduard Čech
Eduard Čech (1893–1960) was a Czech mathematician at Brno and Prague known for Čech cohomology, the Čech–Stone compactification, and his 1936 topology seminar, which continued secretly during the Nazi closure of Czech universities.
Eduard Grüneisen
Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949) was a German physicist known for the Grüneisen parameter and the Mie–Grüneisen equation of state for solids, still used in shock physics and planetary science.
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff (1833–1910) was a Swiss physicist, professor of physics at the University of Basel from 1863 to 1906, who originated the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota used in Swiss electoral law.
Eduard Helly
Eduard Helly was an Austrian mathematician (1884–1943) known for Helly's theorem in convex geometry, the Helly selection principle, and a 1912 forerunner of the Hahn–Banach theorem.
Eduard Study
Eduard Study (1862–1930) was a German mathematician at the University of Bonn known for the Study quadric, a six-dimensional model of rigid-body motions that underlies modern kinematics and robotics.
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess (1831–1914) was an Austrian geologist and professor at the University of Vienna who named Gondwana and Tethys and wrote Das Antlitz der Erde.
Eduard Weyr
Eduard Weyr (1852–1903) was a Czech mathematician who spent his career teaching in Prague and introduced the Weyr canonical form of a matrix in papers of 1885 and 1890.